Make that Plus 2. I'm w/CB.
On Oct 6, 2014 11:30 AM, "Paul Braun" <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sheri and I went to LaSalle, IL yesterday to ride the replica passenger
> packet boat on a section of restored Illinois & Michigan Canal. (Those
> photos to come later).
>
> On the way home, we stopped in Seneca, IL just before sunset so I could
get
> a photo of the M. J. Hogan grain elevator, one of the oldest original
> structures along the I&M. It was opened in 1862, and is still standing.
> Back in its heyday, it could move 750,000 bushels of grain in a season.
>
> I know there are canals everywhere, but the I&M is part of my heritage as
a
> native Chicagoan. Prior to the I&M, Chicago was a small trading post on
the
> lake. Any goods that needed to get to or from Chicago had to be carried
> over land through some pretty rough terrain, so it wasn't that popular of
> an option. The Canal allowed the movement of commodities from the East
> coast, throught the Great Lakes, along the I&M to the Illinois River, then
> to the Mississippi and down to the Gulf. Suddenly, Chicago became a center
> of commerce.
>
> Unlike the Erie, which has been modified, enlarged, and rebuilt over the
> years, the I&M was officially abandoned in 1933 when the newer Illinois
> Waterway system was opened. Parts have been restored as a park, parts were
> filled in, parts are just dry and/or overgrown with weeds. For me, it's
> like finding an abandoned old highway overgrown with trees and weeds. Most
> people don't even know it's there - for example, here in Seneca, it just
> looks like a drainage ditch. The majority of people who drive over it have
> no clue that it was once a superhighway through Illinois. I like to try
and
> keep the history alive in tribute to the thousands of men, mostly Irish,
> who worked to dig all 96 miles of it by hand, many of whom died in the
> process (although nobody kept any records to indicate who died).
>
> I shot a bunch on the tripod, then packed it up and walked across the
> street to shoot a view of the overgrown prism (official terminology for
the
> canal bed, since a cross-section was prism-shaped) looking the other way.
> As I crossed back, I looked up and suddenly a bit of sun had broken
through
> the heavy clouds and there were pink highlights... damn! I ran back to
> where I was before, extending tripod legs as I ran, plugged the cable
> release back in, and shot a 7-shot bracketed burst about 10 seconds before
> the pink disappeared. I had less than one minute to grab that shot.
>
> I've posted two versions - one that's a single frame, tweaked a bit in LR
> to saturate the pink a bit more and to de-saturate the green a touch. The
> other one was processed in HDR Efex 2 at a lighter setting. I'm not 100%
> sure which one I like. There seems to be some slight haloing in the HDR
one
> - maybe if I tried again and left the brightest frame out of the mix...
>
> Lemmeno whatchu think.
>
> Non-HDR: http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14626
>
> HDR: http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14629
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
> Paul Braun
> Certified Music Junkie
>
> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Berthold
Auerbach
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